The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-04-02

next 10 discuss the question OF the lOca!lO
of branch of the home authorized by til
last congress. to be established and maiI
tanned at some point west of the Rock
. mountains. 1t seems to be PRACTICAL
settled that the branch will be located i
California, either near Los Angeles or i
(, the Napa valley, north of San Francisco
Three masked men fred from ambusl
upon Bud Turner and William Lazarus. o
Wichita, Texas, Wednesday night as the,
were returning from visit to Turner
ranch, a mile from Seymour. Turne
was almost instantly killed. Both tn,
horses were fatally wounded and tht
buggy was badly shattered, but Lazaru.
was unhurt No clue as to who were the
assassins.
/ In the dining room of the Palmer
House, Chicago, last Friday, was enacted
a small tragedy which excited consider.
able confusion. A discharged waiter
| (colored) entered the room and approach
ed G. F. Jordan, the head waiter with
whom he demonstrated at his summary
discharge. Almost without warning the
ex-hunkey drew pistol and shot Jordan
in the head, and in the excitement which
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Two 16-year-old boys of Davidson, D.
| r., sons of Postmaster Davidson and a
farmer named Rogers, went to Blunt
mounted on f1eet-footed horses and armed
| with revolver. shotgun and Winchester.
They started east on mission of terror
and death, jumped their board bills and
threatened to shoot anyone who tried to
compel them to pay. One was captured
by the Hand county sheriff and is in the
Miller Jail. The other is still at large
Cause-dime novels.
The Merchants hotel of St. Paul has
been sold by Colonel Allen to E. r. Welz,
proprietor Of the Clarendon, for seven
years. The terms of sale are private.
Welz secures a lease of the building for
five years with the privilege of renewal.
He purchases the entire furniture and fix
lures and will assume the management
April 1st. For fourteen years Col. Allen
has conducted the Merchants. The hotel
is the oldest in the city, being established
thirty nine years ago by J. W. Bass.
Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri, has
signed the bill passed at the recent session
of the legislature which repeals the law
of 1857, that permitted wine and beer to
be sold in St. Louis on Sunday This
brings st. Louis under what is known as
the Downing law, which embraces all the
provisions of strict Sunday law, and not
only closes all the saloons and beer gardens,
but rigidly enforced will stop the running
of street railroads and the publication of
and all manual labor
William Murray, deputy United
States Marshal of Pocatello, Idaho, mar
ried beautiful and attractive young girl
OF II years, short time ago, and subsc-
qaently moved to Shoshone. Wednesday
of last week he became insanely jealous
Of her and putting a pistol to her mouth
fired, the ball coming out of the back of
her head. He fled but "~as pursued and
captured, and narrowly escaped being
executed. Mrs. Murrry was
still alive at last accounts, but it is
thought she cannot recover.
Adolph A. Albrecht, druggist, was en-
gagged in a game of faro in gambling
house run by Edward Flanagan and
David Lanahan at Boston. Albrecht SAYS
he detected Lannahan in an attempt to
cheat him and demonstrated with Lana
han; that the latter attacked him with an
iron bar, when he (Albrecht), in self
defense, shot Lanahan through the head,
killing him instantly; that Flanagan
hen attacked him and he fred two shots
more, one of which entered Flannagan's
breast and the other his head. Albrecht
S highly educated and is said to have
wealthy relatives in the west.
The postotficc department officials are
having prepared series of new designs of
stamps for stamped envelopes of
me, two, four and five-cent denominations.
rhe head of Franklin has been selected
or the one-cent stamp and the heads of
Washington, jackson and Grant for the
wo, four and five-cent denominations, re-
pectlvely. The general design of the
lew series is uniform-on the upper side
nd following the oval shape of the stamp
) the legend, "United States Postage
1stead of "U. $. Postage" as on the stamp
ov in use. This new series will be ready
or issue about May first. The border of l
ne one-cent adhesive stamp has been {
lightly modified to conform to the de- '
'gn of the two-cent stamp.
Commissioner Sparks has issued an ,
rider creating contest board, to which J
II contest cases now pending or here
fter arising iE pre-emption or public
md decisions shall be referred for ex-